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sheaths, and the lowest peduncle nearly inclosed in a longer 
sheath ; stigmas three, sometimes two (Muh.) -fruit ovate- 
lanceolate, round and conic, inflated, rostrate, nerved, bifur- 
cate, with a dense brownish pubescence in prea, pistil- 
late scale ovate-lanceolate, tawny on the edge, distinc 
nerved, little more than half as long as the fruit. Colour of 
the plant light green. 
F lowers in May—grows in marshes—common in N. Eng- 
and and N. York. Penn.—Muh. ; S. Carolina—Ell. 
Though Muh. found the staminate spikes often Sree 2 
at the apex, and the plant is thus figured by Schk., later 
nists have rarely found them thus, and the plant should be 
removed to the last subdivision of the species ef this genus 
in Nuttal’s Gen. 
Bs ccliend, Dewey. tab. ye vol. XI 
Spicis fructiferis ternis tristigmaticis. Ovatis et ovato-ob- 
longis crassis remotis densifloris, superioribus ‘pe- 
dunculatis, inferioribus longo-exserte pedunculatis ; 3; fructibus 
ovato-lanceolatis conicis inflatis rostratis nervosis bifurcatis 
subdivergentibus pubescentibus, squama ovato-oblonga sub- 
mucronata paulo longioribus. 
Culm, leaves, bracts, and sheathes like the preceding—as also 
the staminate spikes, but the staminate scale, isoblong, mucro-~ 
nate and tawny; pistillate spikes three, sometimes four, upper 
ones nearly sessile or with inclosed peduncles,—lowest often 
with a long peduncle projecting far from the sheath,—ovate, 
and ovate-cylindric, about an inch long, gira pte’, 
densely flowered ; stigmas three ; fruit pre- 
ceding, but rather diverging . pistillate scale eens: 
cbuaepette psi tawny on edge, 
three-nerved, the keel, about two thirds. as ek as 
the frnit. Colour of the oe rlaucous green.» 
Flowers in May—grows cae a pond near the village in 
Beekman, Dutchess co. N. Y. 
This plant bears so ge a resemblance to the common 
. trichocarpa, though it differs especially in its pistillate 
spikes, that I alee: it to be only a Vv arity 2 Fi 
-99. C. verrucosa. Muh 
_ Muh. no, 50 . Ell. no. 49. Mon: no. 102. 
tigmaticis. st oot erectis eae: 
axillaribus, infima exserte pedunculata ; fructibus a com- 
